Everyone wants an iPhone, right? No? Well, it’s a a hot-selling handset for sure – a tempting mark for wannabe crooks looking to turn a quick buck. Following on that other idiotic criminal venture that was caught on tape (okay, it’s wasn’t literally a tape, but rather a digital recording), two retarded New York truck…
Video: “Hit Me On My iPhone” – some people have too much time on their hands
Wow, some people have a lot of free time. At least it’s good for a laugh. Some people love the iPhone, some people hate, but everyone knows what it is. Case in point, anyone out there not know what this video parodies? [Via: Macenstein]
iPhone v1.1.3 WebClips feature can be used for nifty speed-dial shortcut
Aside from the home-button double-click feature that was introduced with the iPhone v1.1.1, there really isn’t any other speed-dial option on the iPhone. With the introduction of WebClips on the iPhone v1.1.3, Nate True has discovered another nifty use for the web-page shortcut feature. Along the same lines as that WebClips-based homescreen picture album hack,…
Apple faces increased lawsuit pressure over Visual Voicemail system
Remember that technology firm that came out of the woodwork and sued Apple over the iPhone’s Visual Voicemail feature? Well, unlike other patent-squatters in the business, Klausner Technologies actually had a pretty solid case. The firm sued Apple, AT&T, SimulScribe, and others over patents 5,572,576 and 5,283,818, claiming that Visual Voicemail infringed on Klausner’s IP…
Makayama’s VoiceDial makes iPhone understand your voice; Costs money
Makayama has released a new native iPhone application called VoiceDial. As you can probably guess from its name, the application adds voice dialing feature to the iPhone, but also allows users to start applications and open Safari bookmarks without touching their shiny handset — all they have to do is say it and Makayama’s app…
SNES emulator coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
The graphics of the Nintendo games is just not good enough for your iPhone/iPod Touch? How about Super Nintendo? Do I hear yes? If that’s the case you’ll be glad to know the SNES emulator is about to hit iPhone, iPod Touch – big time! It’s still in beta and currently it’s not available for…
Help Skyhook map WiFi hotspots, make iPhone Google Maps My Location more accurate
Are you the giving-type? Do you like to help others for the betterment of society? Well, you might be interested to hear that you can help Skyhook Wireless map WiFi hotspots in your area. If you’ll recall, Skyhook is the company that provides the iPhone’s v1.1.3 Google Maps’ My Location feature with WiFi hotspot location…
Apple considering bringing iPhone to Thailand?
With Apple’s China-bound iPhone aspirations reportedly on the ropes (or not, depending on who you talk to), it makes sense for Apple to look to other Asian markets that might do well to launch an iPhone. Well, Apple could very well be looking to the Thailand as the next mobile market to get blessed with…
A sign of the times: iPhone-shaped scale
What has our society come to when drug-dealers and calorie-counters look for pocket scales that embody the new hotness in the cellphone industry? Who are we kidding – calorie-counters? This thing’s marketed at illicit-substance traders – drug-pushers, drug-dealers, whatever you want to call them. The iPhone-shaped scale is being offered for $52.49 and features, well,…
iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak gets easier, still not released to public
Well, that didn’t take too long. It feels like we were just talking about the iPhone development community having cooked up a rather complicated jailbreak solution for the iPhone v1.1.3. Unfortunately, the jailbreak method wasn’t ready for prime-time because us mere mortals apparently didn’t have the mental facilities to deal with the jailbreaking minutiae. Anyway,…